IGS Fellowships

John Gardner Fellowship

The John Gardner Fellowship selects six Fellows during the spring semester from among the graduating classes at UC Berkeley and Stanford University and provides each a $27,500 stipend. During the summer months following selection, Fellows travel to a handful of self-selected organizations to identify the one that offers the closest fit with their public service interests and ambitions. Equally important in this process is the selection of a mentor, a senior figure from within the organization who agrees to nurture the Fellow's professional growth and development over the course of their ten-month Fellowship. A mentoring relationship generally means that a Fellow enters an organization at a relatively high level, enjoys access to senior-level meetings and conferences, and travels alongside their mentor when appropriate. Perhaps most importantly, mentoring provides the Fellow with a crash course in experiential learning.

John Jacobs Fellowship

Named in honor of the late John Jacobs, the late political editor and columnist of the McClatchy Newspapers, this fellowship is a joint program of the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism. It seeks to provide support for journalists who take time off to write a scholarly book about politics or public affairs. The fellowship provides a modest stipend, an office, telephone, fax, and copying privileges, as well as access to the University libraries and the research support of the talented IGS library staff. For more information contact: Ethan Rarick, erarick@berkeley.edu; (510) 642-5158.

Program for Overseas Americanists

The Program for Overseas Americanists (POA) brings to UC Berkeley foreign scholars and practitioners with a common interest in advancing the study and understanding of American politics, government and public policy. Participants are granted Visiting Scholar status and return to their home countries with a better grasp of the ties that bind American democratic principles, institutions and values, and its free market economy. Visitors have included well-known scholars and youthful postdocs, journalists, government officials, and foreign service officers from Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, France, China, and Brazil.

As part of this initiative, the following foreign universities have developed informal exchange agreements with IGS:

• Keio University Center for Civil Society with Comparative Perspective

  Located in Tokyo, Keio University's Center for Civil Society with Comparative Perspective conducts research and maintains programs designed to study the underinvestigated area of the dynamics of civil society in a multicultural world. Some of the components of the Center's research include the comparative analysis of civil society, media content analysis, transnational political society, and civil society in Japan.